Please make money.

Under normal circumstances, employees can be promoted one or two levels every year, and their salaries increase every year, but the salary increase for those above level 15 is slower.

Employees with outstanding performance can be promoted one level a year or even skip two or three levels, up to level 18.

Level 18 is an important watershed. If you go up to that level, you will need to be re-evaluated and reviewed.

Those above this level are either powerful executives of the group or technical experts of the group.

Moreover, the salary of technical experts is higher than that of group executives. The simplest proof of this is that Alia requires that if technical positions above level 18 are arranged to go on business trips, teams of more than five people must add a dedicated life administrative assistant to be responsible for matters such as travel, hotels, and catering, and all expenses will be reimbursed by the group.

On the contrary, senior executives don’t get any special treatment in this regard. Just reimburse as usual. There aren’t that many people in the secretariat to serve you…

There are currently less than a hundred people in the Ai Group who can hold technical posts at level 20, and Alia knows them all.

A few people were transferred to the Dongjiao Research Institute before, and two small teams working on display panels were dismantled.

It cannot be said that Ailia is eager to recruit talents now. It can basically be said that the talent pool is insufficient to make ends meet. Sister Jing wants to recruit more people quickly, so how to focus on training is a problem.

Just when Alia had almost finished discussing with everyone and was about to sign the contract, something unexpected happened.

"Boss, Rumlow's message."

Black Bee-Tiger came over and handed Alia a satellite phone.

Alia checked her watch. "How long has he been gone? Twenty minutes? Is he the Flash?"

"No, it seems that the problem in the three southern prefectures of Thailand is a bit tricky. He just contacted them."

"Is this true... Hello? Rumlow?"

"Boss, there are two good news and one bad news. I just contacted these three employees of yours."

"Let me tell you the good news first."

"The good news is that two of them are free agents and in the right position, so we only need two days to complete the recovery work - these are two good news."

"So the bad news is the unlucky guy at the end?"

"Yes, the last unlucky guy worked for a company called SoftElectronics, which was the founding company of the Software Industry Association in Siam."

"so?"

"But their boss died before. Their boss was the fifth richest man in Siam. He died in a helicopter crash. This was originally the largest software company in Siam, with more than 300 professional IT personnel. As a result, the boss's death caused the company to fall apart. Now they are being held hostage by the Freedom Army in the three southern provinces of Thailand, serving their illegal business. I am not sure I can get him out."

"Wait, the warlord over there is also doing telecom fraud?"

"That's their main source of income, and they're doing it all over Southeast Asia, but their target customers are European customers."

An Lele brought over a stack of old newspapers, and Alia flipped through them. It was with great difficulty that she saw this so-called Soft Electric Company among the pile of old papers.

The other party's name at the time was SoftSquare, a professional technology company with 300 information technology professionals.

Later, they joined forces with ten leading peers in Siam to establish an industry association to set software technology standards for the entire Siam.

Three years ago, they were acquired by the fifth richest man and were planning to expand their business to Europe. They even expanded their staff to 500 people and had an annual turnover of several hundred million dollars.

Then the boss crashed...

Just when the expansion was halfway done, the boss suddenly resigned. A group of technical guys became prey to the chaotic market, and the entire technology company collapsed.

Coupled with the special environment in the three southern provinces of Thailand, these technical experts who lost their proper jobs became unlucky people with debts exceeding their assets. In order to make a living, they became the behind-the-scenes technical supporters of the telecommunications fraud of the mobile communications within the Information Unicom. It is estimated that there are now about 200 people involved.

Rumlow did have some connections there, and he was on the road while calling people for help. He then realized that the matter was a bit difficult to handle, so he quickly reported it.

"It's not certain that they have done many illegal things. The scale of the fraud by the Free Army is pitifully small. I doubt that these guys are just working without putting in any effort. They are more likely to be forced by the environment. They may only know how to type on the keyboard and have no other survival skills. Boss, we can redeem them."

Alia was a little hesitant. It wasn't that she couldn't save a poor guy, but she seemed to have seen this group of poor guys somewhere before.

An Lele was still flipping through the newspapers when one of them fell down. Alia glanced at it and then immediately narrowed her eyes.

"AIS, the largest operator in Siam, announced the establishment of NZZ Lab in cooperation with Software Square. It has successfully achieved communication testing in 10 MHz blocks. Is 5G technology a major trend in the future?"

Alia remembered where she had seen these unfortunate guys before - Dongjiao Research Institute - they had cooperated with them before through the operator AIS!

"Sister, he has the polarization code technology solution for 5G communication coding..." Sister Jing added weakly, "My friend used to study at Bilkent University in Turkey. His tutor was called Alekan. He told me before that this thing should be able to be used for future 5G communication coding. Why don't we spend some money to redeem him."

"…He's the only one who knows this?"

"That's not the case. He used to work in the soft electronics department. He started researching this because he established a laboratory in cooperation with the operator."

By the same token, it was because his boss passed away and the laboratory cooperation failed that he leaked these technological advances to his friends, and then became friends with these little geniuses in network security experts, and participated in the previous Internet Information Security Conference together. What followed was a story that Sister Jing was familiar with.

Alia didn't expect to find a big fish here...

Although it takes several years or even more than ten years to transform these theories into technologies and standards, this is a complete technical team with experience!

Arya gave Rumlow a bottom price. She wanted them all and would take as much as she could.

Is this theoretical research, which has not yet been transformed into practical technology, important?

It’s not very important. If you have to say it, it’s at most the predecessor of the future 5G communication technology standard.

Alia could understand that a technical team that came out of nowhere might have the potential to come up with a flash of inspiration that would shock the world.

Just like in the movie "The Wandering Ball", the solution proposed by the protagonist team had already been proposed by the Israeli team.

Whoever finally develops these communication technologies may not be determined by who has the mission or talent to do so, but by who has a relatively more suitable development environment and unremitting resource support, and can keep working on it until it is done well, expanded, and established as a standard.

As for why Siam has not developed, it may be due to environmental issues and the constraints of subsequent development scale.

After they went bankrupt, they were not taken away by other peers, so they could only engage in telecom fraud. What's the point of talking about developing technology? Just dream on...

Half an hour later, Rumlow called back.

"Boss, they agreed to release the person, but the price is too high, 100 million."

"Baht?"

"…US dollars, and they don't release the families of those technicians, they just export them as labor, so we can hire them."

"Are you sure they are negotiating business with me and not blackmailing me? I am their biological mother, would I give such high conditions? Are they crazy?"

"Two hundred and seventeen people, including a complete communications laboratory hardware facility, but now it is being used by their telephone customer service, the kind of fraud gangs, they said they asked someone, the equipment in the laboratory alone is worth several million dollars."

"Rumlow, I'll give you 100 million."

"Wow, do we really have to give them so much?"

“How many people can you bring to me?”

"……ah?"

"One hundred million dollars in cash, how many military defense contractors can you get? I want that lab - both the people and the equipment - as soon as possible!"

"This is enough for a small-scale modern combat, Boss."

"Then call!" Alia looked at her watch. "There are less than 50 hours left before the opening ceremony of the APEC summit. I will go there in person."

"Is this necessary?"

"It is more painful for me to see the shining stars of mankind turn into dull stones than to lose money. Rumlow, they will become one of the foundations of the future world."

"Even if it costs 100 million?"

"This is the difference between our business. You care about 100 million, but I care about what return this 100 million can bring me."

"Two hundred and seventeen technicians, a communications laboratory worth millions of dollars, well... not including the building, only the equipment can be moved."

"Five years, Rumlow, let's make a bet. It only takes five years. I only need one patent to get 100 million US dollars."

"Okay, if it's you, Boss, I'm willing to trust your judgment. I'll contact more people right away."

"Tell the Free Army and the Siamese official army over there to make way for me. They only have 48 hours to think about whether to gain my friendship or become my enemy, because I am very busy and don't have time to play house with them."

"That doesn't sound like the tone a businessman should use. Is it really okay to say that, Boss?"

"They will beg me to make money, believe me--"

289-Alia borrows the passage as "Sister Zi's Sin Bag" 16/20

"Rumlow, are you kidding?"

"I have transferred the money into your account, 1.5 million as a deposit, and the remaining 2.5 million in cash."

Rumlow looked at the broker in front of him, then gestured to his watch: "We only have six hours."

"Your boss is crazy. Is it necessary? Does she really plan to go to the three southern provinces of Thailand to snatch people?"

Siam is world-famous for its tropical sunshine, beaches and urban style, but the three southern Thai provinces at the border between Siam and Malaysia are daunting.

Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat - these three places are always in conflict, and there are a large number of mercenaries who engage in friendly physical exchanges among them.

The simplest data is that over the years, the number of civilians, including tourists, killed in armed attacks in the region has exceeded 7,000.

This is not in a war-torn area like the Middle East, but in a country famous worldwide for its tourism industry.

The Isthmus of Kra, where the three southern provinces of Thailand are located, is located in the transition zone from the Indochina Peninsula to the Malay Peninsula, and is a marginal area between two religions.

The earliest inhabitants of the Indochina Peninsula where Southeast Asia is located were the Khmer people who established an empire, not the current Siamese people.

The Siamese originally lived in the southwest of the country until the 13th century, when they were oppressed by the Yuan Dynasty and moved south to the Indochina Peninsula.

Those who stayed in the country became the later Dai people, while those in Siam became a branch of the Thai Tai ethnic group, spreading from the Beibu Gulf to Southeast Asia.

The Tai people who moved south to Indochina defeated the Khmers and established the Sukhothai Dynasty, which spanned Indochina and the Isthmus of Kra.

The country they established was called "Siam" in Sanskrit, which means gold.

This title is used in the Asia-Pacific cultural circle dominated by Han culture. In fact, Siamese people prefer to call themselves "Mongtai".

As Siam continued to move south, it set its sights on the Malay lands in the Isthmus of Kra.

In the following hundreds of years, although the Malays did not establish a unified country, the Sultanate on the Isthmus of Kra was always the main route to resist the southward advance of the Thais.

With such historical origins, coupled with religious mismatches and cultural and language barriers, how could the boundary lines drawn by troublemakers be useful?

So it was a mess, very messy. The urban areas were mainly populated by Siamese who had migrated here, but the rural areas were still inhabited by Malays, and they spoke their own Malay language.

The writing systems are different, the train tracks are different, and the accents are hard to change, which makes it impossible for them to reach a common understanding.

As for the ironclad unity of a certain big country where 'every hundred miles have different customs, every thousand miles have different habits, and the customs of each province may be different in weddings, funerals and sacrifices, but they all recognize the same river, and everyone, from the emperor to the common people, regardless of high or low, is one', don't even think about it. You will be shot if you leave the city, and the government soldiers on duty have to wear masks to prevent retaliation.

Alia suddenly intervened in these places and spent a lot of money just to snatch a group of people, which gave people a very difficult feeling.

Is she crazy?

Rumlow naturally knew that this was a difficult task, but since the boss had spoken, what could he do?

Look at it in a positive way, they are just fighting for people, not for territory, maybe they will give way if we fire a few shots into the air...

"How about going by sea?"

"Be specific."

"We were able to get two destroyers, but you know, the kind that can't dock."

Because Alia gave so much, the opponent felt embarrassed to hide it.

If you take the road, it is actually not suitable - Pattani Province is located at the northern end of the Malay Peninsula. It is long and narrow like a noodle in the middle, and many forces are entrenched in it.

If Alia wanted to bring people down from Bangkok and then bring so many people back, she could only take the southern Thailand railway line and set out from Songkhla.

But it’s different if you take the sea route. If you go across the Gulf of Siam, you can go directly from the port.

Pattani was already an international trade port hundreds of years ago, with a well-developed river network and the entire city only two kilometers away from the river mouth.

In the past, Bangkok could be reached by taking a straight line, and a distance of several hundred kilometers would only take a few hours. The only problem was that the port needed to be controlled.

Otherwise, if hundreds of people and equipment are transported to the port and loaded onto the ship, if it is a port like India's where the manpower is matched with the port cranes, it may take half a month to load the ship.

Rumlow glanced at the map and basically agreed with the other party's plan. The question was what level the two destroyers were and whether they could suppress everyone's enthusiasm.

"Two 2,000-ton light frigates, are they enough?"

"...You call this a destroyer?" Rumlow scratched his ear and roughly knew what kind of broken ship the other party was talking about.

This is called a fucking frigate, but it really fits the bill here.

On the one hand, the price of 2000-ton ships in the international military trade market is relatively low.

For many not-so-wealthy Southeast Asian countries, this is one of the few maritime equipment they can afford.

On the other hand, most Southeast Asian countries have relatively limited overseas interests, so there is no need to pursue large and medium-sized surface ships with large tonnage and long range.

In the early years, we were keen on purchasing frigates of this level, such as the Gepard class, the Jida class, the Laku class, or the Sigma class. Basically, it can be said that all the 2,000-ton frigates of decent quality in Europe were exhibited here, and each company had several of them lined up in a row.

But those are not Siam’s cup of tea, because Siam has an aircraft carrier!